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Boot Sector Virus Shipped on German Laptops
Juha-Matti Laurio writes "A consignment of laptops from German manufacturer Medion, sold through German and Danish branches of giant retail chain Aldi, have been found to be infected with the boot sector virus 'Stoned.Angelina', first seen as long ago as 1994. The affected notebook models (German language) Medion MD 96290 have been pre-installed with Windows Vista Home Premium and Bullguard anti-virus, which reportedly is unable to remove it. A special removal tool was released to clean the laptops. Aldi has shared the same warning as well. Two years ago several thousands of Creative Zen Neeon MP3 players were shipped with a Windows worm Wullik.B."
...cutting out the middleman!
THL phish sticks
stoned.angelina is a nasty virus too. If your computer is infected it will download other child viruses with weird names from third world countries.
hahah :)
Cant even clean up with their own AV.. Sucks to be them..
Stupid, Stupid, Stupid, Stupid... and in case i didn't mention STUPID...
What was whoever doing on the base image that caused it to become infected? I build system images, and rule #1: Make sure it works cleanly when you're done.
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... a Retro-Virus? ;-)
Isn't Adli a grocery store? WTF is it doing selling PCs? If you buy a PC at the grocery store you deserve to get infected. IMHO
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How adorably quaint.
${YEAR+1} is going to be the year of Linux on the desktop!
Now I don't have to wait for my daughter to download a virus, it comes preinstalled!
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